X-Cop Fly Company

Many of you who came to the X-Cop Fly Company blog (or to Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org) yesterday were redirected to the SOPA Strike page. (The blackout on the X-Cop Fly Company blog started a few hours late for EST people such as myself, since the plugin I used here had a bug, and I [...]

I used several of the sites that were supposedly “shut down” by Anonymous during the day yesterday. Fox News the next day claimed that these sites had been shut down or rendered useless. I used them just fine. In fact, I tried the same sites that same evening and at 12-1 AM and all these [...]

(Slightly abridged from something I posted to Usenet earlier tonight) We need to cut any and all government funding of public, private, nonprofit, and academic efforts researching “curing” mental illness, autism, retardation, etc. because there is a major conflict of interest issue. Unlike medication, which treats symptoms such as depression, anxiety, paranoia, attentiveness, etc., a [...]

Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]

Referring to the inability to buy it and state barriers: Woman at California Town Hall Meeting (warning, loud and distorted audio)

the internet is weird here. and it’s very hot. i hate laptops. At home it’s 99 degrees but it never reached that here. i hate the taste of hard alcohol even though the entire country likes it. there is just no sugaring out that terrible medicine taste. i’m getting kinda bored too. i was up [...]

There have been a lot of posts (and political lobbying) within the past few years by a dying Media 1.0 establishment and a gullible public to discourage the creation and reading of blogs, this time by encouraging Twitter and Facebook as replacements for blogs. Examples: 1 2 3 4 Rather than go on a standard [...]

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

(NOTE: My comments are based on From and Subject headers. I have not these opened these scam e-mails and neither should you, ever.) In my "Spam" folder, there are always fake Notice of Underreported Income forms, originally from a fake "IRS", but now from the British HM Revenue & Customs. Yet it still uses the [...]

From Lew Rockwell: This online video game, consisting of hundreds of thousands of players who control every aspect of the game universe, just suffered an enormous economic calamity due to player-controlled bankers engaging in Fractional Reserve Banking. When players got wind of the fraudulent practice, it prompted a bank run. Minus central banking, Fractional Reserve [...]